I wait 2 hours to recover. If the deer goes down in sight I wait an hour. If its a bad shot, I'll wait overnight or 8-10 hours. You just simply can't push it, let them expire.

Last year a buddy made a bad shot on a huge buck on my land. He didn't look for it right away. He called me 40 minutes after he shot it to see if I wanted to help him track it. I persuaded him to let it lay overnight. The next morning we went looking. It was a good thing we waited. The deer had traveled 500 yards and laid down several times. When we found it you could tell it had just died it was perfectly limp and not stiff yet. We would have pushed the deer and never found it if we hadn't waited.

To many bowhunters track their deer way to soon. Give them some time!

Good Luck next time Mike.

PRACTICE....PRACTICE....PRACTICE......SUCCESS!